DBMS > BaseX vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

basex.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Hughes Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2007

1994

2013

2001

Current release

10.7, August 2023

4.4, October 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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